Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 19

Fear fell llke night around the Fianna, and they stood with slack knees and hanging hands waiting for death.

Who acts: Fear, face, hands · What happens: fall, stand, hang, wait · To what, where: Fianna, hands

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear, face, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	llke	llke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl:unmarked
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 Fianna	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fianna	det
7	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stood	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 knees	case
13	slack	slack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knees	compound
14	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hanging	cc
16	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stood	conj
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hanging	obj
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 hands	acl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Fear		the Fianna	night		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around fianna=Location
2	stand	past	face				with slack knees	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hang	gerund	face not said here	hands				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	wait	gerund	hands not said here				for death	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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